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Landmark Health Care Reform Legislation Creates Sweeping Changes

September 7, 2010

Landmark health care reform legislation has created sweeping changes for employers and their group health plans. For example, employers need to make key decisions, formally amend their group health plans and implement other measures to comply with this new legislation, including:

A decision to maintain or not maintain grandfathered status

Removing preexisting conditions for children (and adults by 2014), lifetime and annual dollar limits for certain services, and waiting periods in excess of 90 days

Notifying participants of these rights and satisfying other new reporting and disclosure requirements

For many of these provisions, employers need to take action before the end of its current plan year. If you have not already spoken to us, please contact Amy Christen or your Dykema relationship attorney for more information about this new legislation and its impact on you.